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ABOLISH POLITICS IN PRISON SETUP, SAYS DR. THAYER Economical and Efficient Operation of Institutions Means Civil Sendee, Social Workers Are Told. FLAYS EVILS OF INDIANA SYSTEM Merit Plan Only Route to Good Rule, Says New Yorker in Indorsing Indianapolis Times Program.

TODAY S ESCAPE On** more name today had been added to the roll of men who have escaped from Indiana penal and reformatory institutions. It was that of Leon Chapel, 26. sentenced to the Pendleton reformatory in 1929 for robbery. The reformatory phoned local police headquarters last night to report that Chapel had escaped from its flour mill.

BY HAROLD LA POLT Time* Staff Writer Economical and efficient operation of penal institutions can be achieved only through removal of politics from the appointment and removal of executives and employes, Indiana social workers were told today. Indorsing The Indianapolis Times program for adoption of the civil service merit system in the management of

Indiana’s penal institutions, Dr. Walter N. Thayer Jr., internationally famed penologist and former head of the American Prison Association, in an address today at the annual convention of social workers, declared flatly for banishment of the “spoils” system of management. “I have been connected with the penal system of New York state during most of my adult life,” declared Dr. Thayer, now New York state correction commissioner. *’My father was warden of Clinton prison when I was but 16, and I am entirely familiar with the conditions which existed when the wardens lost their positions w r ith changing state administrations, and I am equally familiar with conditions under the present system. Pleads for Civil Service * - I do not hesitate tq say that if any prison system is to function economically and efficiently, politics must be removed and the best available type of employes obtained through civil service examination, lurther trained in their duties by instruction in officers' training schools and protected in their positions by civil service laws and rules which prevent their dismissal except on proven charges of neglect of duty.” Dr. Thaver declared. Every’ one of the 2 963 employes in his department, Dr. Thayer told the social workers, except the commissioner and his deputy from the lowest paid clerk to the warden of the largest prison, is appointed from civil service lists after competitive examination. Cotr.rasting the conditions in Indiana with those prevailing in New York. Dr. Thayer said the New York civil service law prevents removal of efficient employes when control of the state government passes from one political party to another.

Employes Give Best So successful has been this system. Dr. Thayer insisted, that the j a surrogate years of service of the | men now in executive guidance of j the far-flung prison system of his ; state is in excess of 300 years. ‘The employes look upon their work as a life vocation." Dr. Thayer pointed out. "They carry on. giving of their best, irrespective of what party is in power at Albany.] secure in their tenure just as long as they perform their duties in the manner properlv expected of them.” j Addressing 1.500 delegates to the convention last night. Governor Paul V. McNutt declared F. Lovell i Bixby. assistant director of the United States bureau of prisons, in his report as a member of the board ! of experts surveying penal condi- j tions in Indiana, has recommended that county ja*ls and infirmaries should not be taken from management of the counties. "I am not at all certain." the Governor declared, "that this is possible just now or that it is de.-irable.” j Improvement Is Traced The Governor told the social worker* the recommendation is worthy of the consideration of the convention and asked advice on the proposal. Today, addressing the convention. Dr. Thayer traced the improvement in the management of county jails and penitentiaries as a result of state supervision in New York. "In addition to the state institutions subject to its jurisdiction." Dr. Thayer said.” the state commission, of correction visits and inspects four county penitentiaries, all the correctional institutions in the department of correction of the city of | New York, sixty-seven county jails, the fifty-odd police station house jails m New York City in which prisoners are held while awaiting arraignment. the detention pens in approximately forty courts in New ✓ York City and more than three hundred local jails and lockups in cities and villages throughout the state.” Inspections are made without prior notice to the officials in charge, the commissioner declared and reports of findings are sent to responsible authorities and the newspa pera The commission of correction (Tarn lo Page Three)

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UNIFY WELFARE, M’NUTTURGES Governor Addresses 1,500 Social Workers in Convention. Co-ordination of Indiana's public welfare activities is essential if the state is to meet adequately its duty in serving the needs of the people. Governor Paul V. McNutt told 1.500 social workers in convention here last night. Addressing the forty-third annual meeting of the Indiana state conference on social work. Governor McNutt appealed to the workers to support a program for the integration of the state’s welfare agencies and to devote their convention discussions to the discovery of proper methods for adoption. “Hungry men and women have been in the vanguard of every demonstration against the established order,” Governor McNutt declared. “All social needs are bound together. It should be possible for every unit to move toward a common goal—supplying our people with a proper standard of living and the improvement of the social structure.” Governor McNutt declared definitely for separate state departments to supervise penal institutions and benevolent activities. “After careful study." he declared. “I have come very definitely to (Turn to Page Three)

BIDS ARE SUBMITTED FOR CITUIGHTING No Announcement Made by Officials on Contents. The Indianapolis Power and Light Company today submitted bids for providing electric current vp the city and servicing the street lighting system to the works and park boards. The two boards, in advertising for bids several months ago. set 10 a. m. today for submission of bids. No other bids were presented. The present contracts expire in April. 1935. Because of the complicated nature of the bids, no announcement could be made by officials as to posible savings under the new bid. but park officials said it was expected a saving would be shown.

TODAY'S WEATHER

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Giants’ Foldup Finishes Terry in New York, Says Joe

BY JOE WILLIAMS Tines Special Sports Writer NEW YORK. Oct. I.—lts the Deans against the Detroits for the 1934 baseball championship. Aided by the most sensational pair of pitching brothers in the history of the game, the St. Louis Cards put on a stretch finish that blew the world champion Giants nght out of the league. With the pressure on full force, the men from Missouri came through with a great competitive rush. Under the same psychological conditions the men of Manhattan folded up like an English heavyweight. They lost six of their last seven games against the softest opposition in the league. They came up

Textile Workers to Register With Plant for Re-Instatement Decision Made at Conference After Union’s Four-to-One Vote to End Strike and Return to Work; 245 to Get Jobs Tomorrow. Members of the United Textile Workers of America who have been on strike against the Indianapolis Bleaching Company will report to its plant, 900 West Wabash street, tomorrow morning to register for reinstatement in their jobs with plant officials and U. T. W. A. representatives supervising the registration..

This was decided today at a conference between the management and representatives of Local No. 2069, U. T. W. A., called after the union voted shortly after last midnight, by a more than four-to-one majority, to end the strike and return to work. The strike began four weeks ago tomorrow as part of the national strike, which ended week before last. The strikers will line up outside the plant at 7:15 tomorrow morning in four lines—one for each department in the mill. They will file their applications for work. These will be accepted in the order of filing, with men with families reinstated first wherever this is possible. This latter agreement was made by Charles A. Young, plant general manager, on the suggestion of Charles P. Drake, union business agent, after Mr. Drake and Mr. Young had agreed that there would be no fighting between strikers and men who have worked during the strike and who. to the strikers, still are “scabs” and ••strikebreakers.” 245 Get Jobs Tomorrow Mr. Young said he would attempt to keep the groups on different shifts as far as possible. Approximately 245 men will go back to work from the strikers’ ranks tomorrow, with the rest to be absorbed as rapidly as possible. The mill now is operating on one shift. Effective with the strikers’ return, two 30-hour shifts will work in the mill with one 40-hour shift in the bleachery proper. Mr. Young has said he will add a third shift in the mill and additional shifts in the bleachery as rapidly as possible. Mr. Young took advantage of the meeting to deny emphatically that he was contemplating formation of a company union at the mill. He declared that, if his employes were going to have a union, he wanted it to be a “real union.” Those who attended the meeting with Mr. Drake as department representatives were L. W. Gentry, Philip Bohn, Harry Leslie and Elma May Robinson. Mr. Young was accompanied by James W. Knowles, bleachery superintendent. No Violence at Plant For the first time in more than two weeks, there were no stones thrown this morning when the cars of men and women who had been strikebreakers entered the plant yard. No pickets were on duty after last night's vote. The return to work, forecast exclusively Saturday in The Indianapolis Times, came after a general order from Francis J. Gorman. Washington, leader of the recently ended national strike, that locals I should return at once and submit I all charges of discrimination to the national textile labor board. Mr. Drake said he considered the present setup more advantageous to the strikers than any offer Mr. Young had made to them during the conciliation conferences of last week, arranged by The Times and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan with Mayor Sullivan in the role of conciliator. He argued that, since the union now had shown its good faith, Mr. Young would be abliged to abide by rulings of the textile board without question. Secret Ballots Cast This view was shared by persons ;in U. T. W. A. national headquarI ters. who quoted Mr. Gorman as follows to The Times’ Washington !bureau: i “President Roosevelt’s speech has put the employers on their honor so [far as pursuing peaceful means of settlement is concerned. They are on their honor—or. on the spot.” Mr. Gorman is in New York, but will consider, as soon as he returns to Washington, a wire from Mr. Drake, complaining that, out of 'eighty strikers in the bleachery proper, only ten will return to work immediately. His associates believed he would push this case at once before the textile labor board. Last night’s meeting of the union was marked by heated discussion, which began at about 9 and lasted until 11:45 when balloting began. I with many voicing displeasure with I the prospects of returning. Secret ballots were cast under the super- ; vision of William Yager, president : of the American Federation of Labor union at P. R. Mallory & Cos.

to September with a seven game lead—A practically impregnable advantage and kicked it away. Thus they contrived the most astonishing collapse the game has known in a generation. There is bound to be some sharp criticism of the club and the management, and a shake up of epic proportions is inevitable. Mr. Bill Terry won't dare to come back to the Polo Grounds next spring with the same cast that had a championship won, only to throw it away. The customers just wouldn't go for it. Just precisely what happened to the Giants is not easy to say. The evidence against them makes their case look black—makes it look as if they quit cold when they began to feel the hot breath

Fair and wanner tonight and tomorrow.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1934

SISTER OFFERS ALIBIFOR DEAN Alleged Jones Slayer at Her Home, She Testifies in Court. The defense alibi for Edward • Foggy) Dean, charged with the submachine gun murder of Police Sergeant Lester Jones in a garage holdup the morning of Feb. 7, 1933, was offered this afternoon by Mrs. Alice Palmer, attractive, welldressed sister of the alleged gunman. Speaking in a confident, modulated voice, Mrs. Palmer said that Dean had stayed all night at her house the night and early morning of the crime. She said that Dean had driven her and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Bertha Doolittle, to see her husband, Arthur Palmer, then a hospital patient. Then they returned to the Palmer home at 828 Woodlawn avenue where they retired at 11 p. m., she testified. “I was up nearly every hour with dad,” Mrs. Palmer said. “Dad was very ill that night and I slept on a cot near his bed.” The “dad” to whom she referred was her 83-year-old father, who died in July, 1933. The husband, Arthur Palmer, testified that Dean had worn a dark brown outfit that night while previous witnesses had said that Dean was dressed in a light suit the night of the crime. The defense opened its case for Dean by attempting to confuse the identification of Dean as the submachine gun bandit and as one of five fleeing gunmen who commandeered a taxicab a short time after the holdup. William Horn, 426 Irving rlace, testified that while a prisoner in the county jail he had talked with Paul Lutmers, a state witness who had identified Dean as one of the gunmen who had seized the taxicab. Horn said that Lutmers, who was being held as a material witness at the time, told him that he would be unable to identify any of the bandits. Under cross-examination, Horn admitted that he had been in jail several times and that now he was being held there on burglary charges. Allan O. Voorhies, R. R. 4. Box 511, former operator of a filling station at 618 Virginia avenue, testified that he had seen Dean the morning after the crime, thus discounting the state theory of flight. Mr. Voorhies said that he had known Dean as a whisky seller.

Hauptmann*s Extortion Trial to Start This Week

New York Officials Prepare to Call Jury Panel; New Jersey Delays Murder Indictment. By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. I.—Bronx county officials prepared to call a jury this week for the extortion trial of Bruno R. Hauptmann, but New Jersey’s plans to extradite the Lindbergh case suspect appeared to have been delayed by lack of conclusive evidence.

Despite the delay in New Jersey, Attorney-General David Wilentz said that the state still planned to extradite Hauptmann. Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey announced that evidence on which Hauptmann might be tried for kidnaping or murder was not sufficient to warrant extradition of the prisoner at present. Mr. Wilentz and other state officials conferred at Trenton on the case. Other developments: 1. Belief that others were involved in the crime . was strengthened by disclosure that deposits of two batches of ransom certificates were not linked with Hauptmann, indicating another man. 3. Hauptmann s journals several books containing records of business transactions —were examined.

of the pursuing Deans at their sensitive heels. This is hardly true. The team established its fighting qualities a year ago both in the league race and in the series. a a a MR. TERRY may have lacked that certain something a manager needs to lift a drooping club out of the doldrums—that inspirational drive McGraw had before he got old and gray. Not the most conspicuous of Mr. Terry's gifts is his personal magnetism. His is not the spiritual force that sends mm charging blindly across no man's land. So much for theories. The known facts are that the Giants were the second best club in the

LABOR BACKS ROOSEVELT INDUSTRIAL PEACE MOVE

GARAGE LEVELED IN HUNT FOR MORE RANSOM MONEY

Spurred on by the discovery of the additional SB4O of Lindbergh ransom money cleverly concealed in a piece of wood, police carpenters have demolished the garage built and used by Bruno Richard Hauptmann to secrete his hoard of bills. Every piece of lumber in the structure is being minutely examined by investigators to make sure no other secret caches have escaped them. Above the last stage of destruction of the garage is pictured. '

FRATERNITY BROTHER POLITICAL RIVALS TO FORGET DIFFERENCES

Three fraternity brothers who have had their political differences will meet tomorrow night at the Phi Gamma Delta Indianapolis graduate chapter meeting at the Athenaeum and “bury the hatchet” for a few hours. The Democrats will have the numerical advantage with Superior Judge John W. Kern, Democratic mayoralty nominee, and Omer S. Jackson, Democratic state chairman. Walter Pritchard, Republican mayoralty candidate, will be the Old Guard representative.

NEW TRIAL WILL BE ASKED BY MRS. DILLON Sentence to Be Appealed Should Motion Fail, Says Lawyer. A motion for anew trial for Mrs. Dimmie Dillon, mother of Donald Dillon who was slain mysteriously, will be asked tomorrow in juvenile court by Lawrence Shaw, her attorney. If the motion is denied Mr. Shaw said the sixty-day child neglect sentence imposed by Juvenile Judge John Geckler would be appealed. He declared no appeal would be taken for Gilbert Jacobs, with whom Mrs. Dillon has been living, but that he would ask that Jacobs be confined during servitude of his ninetyday sentence in the county jail instead of at the Indiana state farm.

4. District-Attorney Samuel Foley reiterated that the “mystery woman” of the case was still regarded as his most important witness in establishing Hauptfnann as the engineer of the ransom negotiations. He would not say if she was detained and it was said not even his associates knew her name. Mr. Foley repeated his assertion that Hauptmann was “the only one concerned” in the extortion charges and said there would not be a superceding indictment. He twice has interviewed the unidentified mystery woman, but her position in the case will not be revealed until the trial starts. Hauptmann was calm in his cell today. He took some exercise and appeared less worried.

league and that’s where they finished. Belatedly, Mr. Terry admitted this yesterday back in the clubhouse as he reeled and rocked from the second straight knockout at the hands of the Brooklyn Dodgers—who, it developed, were still very much in the league. Most of the experts had been saying all along that the Giants weren't a championship team. Moreover, the Giants came up to the final phases of the race a tired, weary outfit. The overworked pitchers didn't have anything left and the hitters were just going through the motions. SUM MR. TERRY openly admits baseball carries no romance for him, that he is in the game solely for the dough he can get

French Premier Likens Himself to Roosevelt Safeguarding of World Democracy in Hands of Britain, France and United States, Says Doumergue. BY KARL A. BICKEL President of the United Press. (World Copyright, 1984, by United Press) PARIS, Oct. 1— Premer Gaston Doumargue of Fiance, in an exclusive interview today with the United Press, declared that the safeguarding of world democracy is in the hands of three nations—the United States, Great Britain and France.

Himself engaged in a fight to preserve the last of the great strongholds of European democracy, Premier Doumergue drew a parellel between his own efforts and those oi President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Like Mr. Roosevelt, France’s goodhumored political peacemaker is moving to concentrate greater executive strength in the hands of the chief of the government. If there is any divergence in the parallel, it is on the currency question. Taking a definite stand as an advocate of sound gold money, and against inflation and artificial tampering with currencies, and pointing to his opposition to Socialism and Communism, France’s suave leader directed my attention to the similarity of efforts by the French and American governments to find a way out of the world crisis without sacrificing the principles of democracy which were born of their two revolutions. Resembles Roosevelt Policy His plan contains many points of strong resemblance to the Roosevelt policies of directing American political and economic recovery. In a series of wireless talks with the French people, the next of which will come Thursday night, he has carried his fight directly to the French people. No single French leader since the days of Bonaparte has had greater support from the French peasantry. They trust him when he declares i he has no desire for personal power, i but merely wants the supreme gov- j ernmental power concentrated in j the hands of the prime minister. M. Doumergue asks that he be given power to dissolve the parlia-1 ment whenever such action becomes | necessary to check political intrigue; to place in the hands of the government alone, and to remove from the hands of the parliament the right to propose taxation and expenditure; to curb the spendings of the parliament by forcing a continuation of the previous year's budget if parliamentary haggling prevents taking a vote at the proper time. Stresses Need for Power ‘‘You in America.” he said, ‘‘have discovered that to make democracy effective and efficient, you must grant to the chief executive—who always is fundamentally under the final control of the people—certain great and expanding powers. ‘‘All that my program involves in a broad way is to bring into the French political system those ele-

out of it, that he doesn’t care whether the customers go for him or not and that if the newspaper writers don’t adore him with soul tingling ecstacy—well, it's just too bad. This is hardly the speediest approach to complete popularity—and I hold that a manager ought to at least pretend that he has an affection for the sport—but just the same you could not help feeling a bit sorry for the swarthy southerner yesterday, harassed as he was on the one side by the vengeful Brooklyns, and on the other by the jnute moves on the scoreboard which told in mournful numbers the story of the Cards' closing victory against the Reds, and their ascension to the championship. ,

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ments which give the chief executive strength; that have been the strongest and most admirable features of the democratic systems of government in the United States and Great Britain. “To a degree scarcely appreciated, the hope of peace on the continent of Europe depends upon the preservation of democracy. France today is fighting to preserve the vestiges of that democracy. “If France fails in that struggle, the rights and liberties of the individual and all advances in human freedom and culture that have been gained in the last century of unremitting struggle by the French people will have been lost.” TWO ARE KILLED IN TRAFEIC ACCIDENTS County Toll Reaches 95 for Year. Harry Mallory, 25, Fairland, Ind.. died early today in city hospital as the result of injuries received when the automobile in which he was riding rammed into the rear of another car and crashed into a ditch

on State Road 29, one mile west of New Bethel, yesterday. The death of Mr. Mallory and fatal injuries suffered by Miss Mar-

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garet Vondersaar, 13, R. R. 16, Box 255-V, Saturday, raised the accident toll over the week-end to ninety-five deaths already this year in Marion county. , Mr. Mallory was riding with Noel Tillison. 21, Fairland. Mr. Tillison’s car rammed into the rear of a car driven by Charles W. Winkle. 65, of 1341 Montcalm street, and then turned over twice in a roadside ditch. Mr. Winkle was not injured. Mr. Tillison, h-’ld in city hosiptal on reckless driving charges, suffered serious back and internal injuries. Miss Vondersaar was injured fatally when the car in which she was Riding, driven by her mother, Mrs. *Alma Vondersaar, was in collision with an automobile driven by Richard Davis, 20. of 4189 Ruckle street, at Fifty-ninth street and Central avenue. Davis was arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter and vagrancy. DavLs and Robert Ostermeyer, 21, of 4002 Broadway, who was riding with Davis, suffered slight injuries and were sent to city hospital. Mrs. Vondersaar suffered serious head injuries.

M’NUTT STUDIES PLAN FOR UNIFYING RELIEF Program Calls for Dividing State Into Four Districts. Governor Paul V. McNutt an_ nounced today that he was consid" ering a plan to divide the state into four relief districts and thus co-ordinate relief. Under the present setup state relief is handled by the Governor’’ unemployment commission with offices here. Howard Hunter, Washington. federal emergency relief administration field agent, conferred with the Governor and stated that the government was well pleased with the Indiana relief system.

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Three-Way Contract to End Strikes Proposed in Fireside Chat. CRITICS ARE ANSWERED Jobs for Jobless and Fair Profit System Is Promised. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. I. President Roosevelt today reassured the nation concerning the permanency of the New Deal, pledged a fair profit system for business, and proposed a truce to end the bickering of capital and labor. In the most important of his famous messages to the people since the banking collapse of last year, he foresaw a future prosperity solidly built upon a sound foundation. Admitting frankly that there may have been some imperfections in his battle against the depression, he pledged himself to lead the country under a banner of liberty to greater freedom and greater security for the average man. He accused his critics of coming out of their storm cellars and forgetting that there ever had been a storm, gave his word that the administration would redouble its efforts to find jobs for the jobless and compared this country’s recovery program to that of Great Britain. The President ignored demands that he promise to make no more governmental experiments. He initiated instead what may become .one of the mast far-reaching experiments of all—the end of strife, strikes and lockouts through a three-way contract between himself, industry and labor. In making this unprecedented proposal from the White House last night, the President said he would confer this month with labor leaders and industrialists, seeking their co-operation in establishing a specific trial period for industrial peace. Pledges Fair Private Profit His proposal for a trial strike truce today brought quick indorsement from organized labor. But Wall Street was disappointed in the speech as a whole and big business may not find in it the message of confidence it desires. Mr. Roosevelt pledged a fair private profit system and promised that the New Deal would move forward to a permanent basis. He scoffed at his more timid critics and said the administration would not be frightened by reactionary lawyers or political editors.

President William A. Green of the American Federation of Labor saw in Mr. Roosevelt’s speech assurance that the right of collective bargaining would be maintained for workers. In San Francisco, where the A. F. of L. meets today in annual convention he called the strike truce proposal ‘‘pertinent, timely and appropriate.’’ Wall Street called the strike proposal a favorable development in administration policy. But the financiers remarked the absence in Mr. Roosevelt’s speech of any assurance that the budget would be balanced or that monetary experij mentation would cease. Some bankers challenged Mr. Roosevelt’s statement that (business i profits were raised to a substantial j level. And there was denial that j capital was more secure now than before. The financial judgment appeared to be that the uncertain 1 status of the dollar combined wth | the danger of further inflation made investing at this time more hazardous that at any period in the recent past. Peace Proposal Outlined His strike truce proposal, coinciding significantly with the American Federation of Labor convention in San Francisco, said that Mr. Roosevelt would seek: “Assurances of the making and maintenance of agreements, which can be mutually relied upon, under which wages, hours and working [conditions may be determined and any later adjustments shall be made either by agreement, or in case of disagreement, through the mediation of state or federal agencies.” The President said he would not ask either side to lay aside permanently the weapons common to industrial warfare, but that: “I shall ask both groups to give a fair trial to peaceful methods of adjusting their conflicts of opinion and interest and to experiment for a reasonable time with measures suitable to civilize our industrial civilization.” Mr. Roosevelt’s address was couch in simple phrase. It bristled with contempt for do-nothing critics, promised a continued fight on the part of the chief executive for a more abundant life for Americans and centered upon this not* of optimism: Bringing Order From Chaos “I am happy to report that after years of uncertainty, culminating in the collapse of the spring of 1933, we are bringing order out of the old chaos with a greater certainty of the employment of labor at a reasonable wage and of more business (Turn to Page Three) Your motor checked. Carburetor adjusted. See Carburetor Sales, 214 East Ohio.—Adv.